Re:Syncthing: A continuous file synchronization program
by kornhole on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @04:53PM
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>automatic backups of my phone?
Full Android phone backup to a drive can be done with Seedvault on a schedule. I think you are asking about automatic upload though. I use Nextcloud to auto upload new pictures to my server as well as for Seedvault backup.
Re:Syncthing: A continuous file synchronization program
by em-bee on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @05:02PM
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yes, automatic upload. schedules are impractical for phones that are not connected to wifi on a schedule.
for nextcloud i would need to set up a server that probably also needs to be always online. syncthing allows me to backup to my laptop and is opportunistic about it, ie whenever both are on wifi.
i am also using syncthing to manage my audio files. on the laptop i decide what i want to listen to by copying the files into a specific folder, and that gets copied to the phone. when i am done with a file i delete it from the phone, and that gets synced back to the laptop. syncthing is perfect here, and so using it for backup in the other cases is worth it over having yet another solution.
Re:Syncthing: A continuous file synchronization program
by Obscurity4340 on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @07:03PM
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iMazing can perform wifi-based backups and there is an included tool (iMazing mini I believe) that hangs out in the menu bar running in the background to perform scheduled backups. Requires iPhone and Mac tho.
Re:Syncthing: A continuous file synchronization program
by dataflow360 on Friday May 19, 2023 @10:13AM
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* iMazing is also available for Windows
the primary use for syncthing on my phone is to make sure data is backed up immediately.
i have yet to find an app that has the resilience and flexibility of syncthing for this purpose.
apart from that the primary issue i have with syncthing is that the app on a device can not tell me if all data in a particular folder is fully copied to the other device. it only tells me if all local folders are complete.
it also gets confusing when you have more than a few devices and sync between all of them. i recently discovered that i had a set up A<->B<->C but A and C were not connected. i never noticed because A and C were always in sync, until device B died. but it took me some time to notice that because i didn't realize that i missed to connect A to C directly.
it would be nice to have some way to get an overview of the whole graph to see what syncs to where.